Emma Watson Just Followed Up Her Amazing Gender Equality Speech With Another Must-See

To hear Emma Watson address a roomful of suited professionals on gender equality is a truly amazing thing. Her voice is lovely, she's beyond eloquent, and the way she chooses to phrase everything is stirring. Following up her much-lauded UN speech in September, she just spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, introducing He for She's 10x10x10 initiative to have governments, businesses, and universities make "concrete commitments to gender equality." You owe it yourself to watch the entire speech above, but for now, here are some of my favorite sections. On the response since her September speech: "The He for She conference was watched over 11 million times, sparking 1.2 billion social media conversations. Everything from marathons being run, merchandise being created, 15-year-old boys writing to national newspapers deploring female discrimination, young girls collecting hundreds of signatures. It's all happened in the last four months. I couldn't have dreamed it." On holding people accountable: "Parents, did you make sure you treated your children equally? Husbands, have you been supporting your female partner privately so she can fulfill her dreams too? Young men, have you spoken up in a conversation when a woman was casually degraded or dismissed? Businessmen, have

To hear Emma Watson address a roomful of suited professionals on gender equality is a truly amazing thing. Her voice is lovely, she's beyond eloquent, and the way she chooses to phrase everything is stirring. Following up her much-lauded UN speech in September, she just spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, introducing He for She's 10x10x10 initiative to have governments, businesses, and universities make "concrete commitments to gender equality."

You owe it yourself to watch the entire speech above, but for now, here are some of my favorite sections.

On the response since her September speech:

"The He for She conference was watched over 11 million times, sparking 1.2 billion social media conversations. Everything from marathons being run, merchandise being created, 15-year-old boys writing to national newspapers deploring female discrimination, young girls collecting hundreds of signatures. It's all happened in the last four months. I couldn't have dreamed it."

On holding people accountable:

"Parents, did you make sure you treated your children equally? Husbands, have you been supporting your female partner privately so she can fulfill her dreams too? Young men, have you spoken up in a conversation when a woman was casually degraded or dismissed? Businessmen, have you mentored, supported or engaged women in leadership positions? Writers, have you challenged the language and imagery used to portray women in the media?"

On now being the time for change:

"While I would love to claim that this campaign and the results of it are a result of my incredible speech writing skills, I know it is not. It is because the ground is fertile. It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces. They know the world is being held back in every way because they are not. Women share this planet fifty-fifty and they are under-represented, their potential astonishingly untapped."